FRIDAY & SATURDAY

SEPTEMBER 16-17,2011
featuring
@THE_MOMENT: #5shortplaysonlifein2011
Are you plugged in? Hooked up? Turned on? Stressed out?
Well, then, you must be a citizen of 2011!

Salt Luck Arts, Baltimore’s newest arts group, presents @The_Moment: #5shortplaysonlifein2011, a night of original short pieces from some of Baltimore’s most exciting new talent (including Annelise Montone, Kevin Kostic, Rosemary Frisino Toohey and Brent Englar). In @The_Moment, they explore all that is wonderful and terrible about recent life. They'll present too-intimate relationships with smartphones, freak out over multiple birth explosions, get into political punditry, reveal tip-top government secrets and tweet ‘till they DROP-all in one night!

more info: http://www.saltluckarts.wordpress.com

Also on Friday September 16th only

THE DAILY LION
Dina Varsalone-Vocals/guitar
Sam Wylie guitar/vocals
Bill Engstrand bass/vocals
Jim McShea drums.
ETHER-CORE- sound reminiscent
of The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, and The Police.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

MAY 6 and 7,2011
featuring
LAB EXPERIMENTS:
Festival for women in experimental media.
A two day festival centering around women in experimental media an music.
curated by Shana Palmer
Artists perfoming include: Lexie Mountain, Family Underground, Susan Alcorn, Secret Secrets, Bonnie Jones, Jenny Graf,
Stephanie Barber, Laure Drogoul, Ami Dang, BeastMaster, Berglind AgustDottir, Ayako Kataoka, Liz Merideth

more info: http://labexperiments.org/

THURSDAY APRIL 28,2011

THE TRANSMODERN FESTIVAL
The 8th Annual Transmodern Festival will open on Thursday, April 28th on the first floor of Maryland Art Place's building at 218 W. Saratoga St. and The 14Karat Cabaret with three distinct events. The night will begin at 6pm with Mediations, a video and performance program followed by performances starting at 8:00pm downstairs at The 14Karat Cabaret. Color Kiss, Dan Conrad's window installation will be on view at sundown.

featuring

NANCY ANDREWS
Behind the Eyes are The Ears
Film by Nancy Andrews
Soundtrack Nancy Andrews and Zach Soares
This mix of animation, found footage, and live action footage follows the research of Dr. Sheri Myes and her revolutionary attempts to expand our perceptions and consciousness. The filmmaker began the project by writing a song cycle, and then imagery was developed through a series of drawings. The film is influenced by classic “mad scientist” horror films like “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “The Man with the X-ray Eyes”. !

ANDREW ZUKERMAN
Fleshtone Aura - A collage of sound fragments and synthesized nuances played on tapes, through tapes and on top/ about/ who is tapes.

EXTREME ANIMALS
Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman present short performances for video and live performers as well as perform live music soundtracks to a variety of their original video works. The short performance works range from absurd inspirational lectures to musings on contemporary internet culture to introspective meditations on metal guitar shredding technique, all couched within a lo-fi, intentionally awkward ‘performance art’ aesthetic.

EVE HANAN
In Eva/Aves, Eve Hanan creates an intimate dance setting in which one woman, Eva, corresponds with her absent husband in long, crowded letters sent over 20 years and two world wars. Messenger pigeons pass notes, twitch, flap, swarm, home, scavenge, and initiate Eva’s avian transformation into their flock. Sound design by Bob Hoehn.

For more info on the festival check out the website

The Transmodern Festival

FRIDAY APRIL 29,2011

THE TRANSMODERN FESTIVAL
Travesty at Hand: Poupées,Toupees and Dummies
An evening of puppet/master manipulations, featuring film, performance, digital device, high drag, low drag, hand-cranks and puppets in their guise and glory. Expect the dis-embodied and the rearranged, the estranged and deranged, the fragmented and extended body object in all its splendor.
featuring

MARSIAN
Marsian is a Los Angeles puppet artist, chanteuse, and high-art drag personality. As a writer, director, producer and puppet designer Marsian has been making work for adults audiences, teetering on the precipice of cute and abject, informed by breaking news, tabloid lore and popular culture.
http://www.marsiandelellis.com/

PHILADELPHIA'S PUPPETYRANNY
Puppetyranny is a committee (Leslie Rogers and Zac Palladino) of craftastic wrongdoers. Though based in Philadelphia, Puppetyranny also features tyrannical circus and annoyance arts from abroad. Talents include, but are not limited to: Puppetry, Stilting, regular old Acting, Trapeze, Garbage Making, and Animation. Prepare to be uncomfortably thrilled!

Puppetyranny will be presenting a sequel to their popular MouthShow!, a spectacular set of vignettes told on the on a most intimate stage – the mouth!

MARTHA COLBURN
Martha Colburn‘s handcrafted animations explode with an energy, concentration and a rapid-fire torrent of ideas that push the medium to its very edges. Colburn’s past works have savagely lampooned pop culture, consumerism,and middle-class attitudes to delirious fantasies, but her most recent films bring more tragic dimensions to bear by focusing on war and icons of American history.

Always startling in her use of disparate techniques and free association, Martha Colburn creates films unlike any other, and the screening spans 16 years of filmmaking with 16 films, including Dolls vs. Dictators (2010), Join the Freedom Force (2009), Myth Labs (2008), Triumph of the Wild (2008), Skelehellavision(2001), Spiders In Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical (2000), and Evil of Dracula (1997), among others. Her work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, The Kitchen, the Whitney Museum, PS 1, MoMA, and numerous major international film festivals.

www.marthacolburn.com

ANNA FRANTS
Anna Frants is an international new media artist and curator. Her interactive installations have been exhibited at venues across the world. Recent highlights from 2009-present include exhibiting in the St. Petersburg Biennial, Moscow Biennial and Polish Biennial, Kuoseino Sato Museum of Contemporary Art (Fukuoka, Japan), The Museum of Art and Design (New York, USA), The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Chelsea Art Museum (New York, USA), RSProjects (Berlin, Germany), VAP / Gogolfest (Kiev, Ukraine) and Transmediale (Berlin, Germany) as well as participating in a 17-day expedition to The Arctic Circle with The Farm Foundation of Arts and Sciences. Frants is represented by Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery (Brooklyn, USA & Berlin, Germany) and Barbarian Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland).

Frants is also a distinguished curator active in expanding and progressing the international field of New Media. She is co-founder of Cyland – a nonprofit that organizes an annual new media festival held throughout St. Petersburg, Russia’s top institutions including The State Hermitage Museum, The Peter and Paul Fortress and Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center. Anna graduated from Baron Stieglitz St. Petersburg Academy of Art & Industry in Russia and Pratt Institute School of Advanced Studies in New York. She spends her time split between Russia and New York.

Performance: Drumpainting

Drumpainting is a collective Cyland project

http://www.annafrants.net/cv.html

SARAH JENNINGS
Sarah Jennings is responsible for the care and feeding of an army of puppets. Sarah likes to go big or go home. Sarah is originally from Richmond, VA. Sarah is enthusiastic and excitable. Sarah drinks coca cola all day long. Sarah likes to have an excuse to wear a costume. Sarah works in a cubicle all day. Sarah throws dinner parties and likes to work in her workshop. Sarah is not very tall.

Sarah wants you to check out Sarah’s videos: (search for PuppetSarah on Youtube)

MARIANNE ROSS
Dancer and puppeteer Marianne Ross has performed with Bread and Puppet Theater, Kids on the Block, The Puppet Company at Glen Echo National Park, and the DC Puppet Undergrund, among others. She is also the director of Concerts in the Country,(www.concertsinthecountry.org ) which produces outdoor multi-media festivals in the Washington DC area. Marianne Ross will present two short performances, including Emperor Ta Li’s Victory, a short parable by Bertolt Brecht on the crankie, and The Butterfly Effect, a commentary on war featuring a tin marionette and a finger puppet butterfly.

POSSIBILITARIAN PUPPET THEATER
There is a farm deep the mountains of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where a paper mache cathedral houses Insurrection masses, and a sourdough Baker and Philosopher makes a living by corrupting capitalist youth and making them unfit for the jobs they are manufactured to perform.

In Cleveland, OH, a cultural enterprise infected with this Sourdough Philosophy is determined to continue testing out this unreasonable, childish, idiotic practice called puppetry on the hum-drum, business-as-usual, sterilized, money-worshipping, techno-dazed world.

Precisely due to the obvious impossibility of this enterprise they call themselves the Possibilitarian Puppet Theater. Possibilitarians say: “Yes we embrace possibility and celebrate it in the form of puppetry, which includes the arts in all forms: Music, Sculpture, Painting, Dance, Poetry, Performing, and even advanced cardboard and garbage engineering technology.”